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flaw in excelsis Dale you're here I knew

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you'd make it home for Christmas now we can begin our annual tradition of

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remembering all the wacky hijinks that happened in the world of technology this

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year I was gonna say James but you're not James I'm not James but you wanted

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to start without this person but I said no I know it's not Christmas it's boxing

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day but I think I still got some Christmas cheer hanging about in the old

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house coat this isn't even the house coat that I wear what the heck can we

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refer to me as History Mr Christmasy

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welcome it's the tackling Christmas special fire the starting candy cane

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the beginning of 2022 was a bleak one for PC Gamers coming off a year stricken

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by the GPU shortage Best Buy was charging 200 bucks just for the chance

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to buy graphics cards or consoles exactly people were smuggling gpus like

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they were illicit substances and major conglomerates had turned to Scavenging

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semiconductors from washing machines like raccoons going through your garbage

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they don't care if you see them do it not as cute though no not nearly no I

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find them in my yard all the time there's people in suits but by March the

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tide was starting to turn as some gpus could be found for less than 30 percent

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above MSRP which is why it seemed kind of crazy

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when NVIDIA launched the RTX 3090 TI for

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two thousand dollars only to have its price cut in half by August prices

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continued to fall accelerated by the mid-may crash in the value of

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cryptocurrency which you know we're gonna talk about in a second just wait

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just hold on hold your horses wait by

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July gpus had fallen below MSRP in Germany and Austria and in August NVIDIA

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told investors they have excess inventory the GPU shortage was over but

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our Jubilation was cut short when EVGA announced that it was shutting down its

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GPU business because NVIDIA couldn't stop acting a fool as if to confirm this

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in September NVIDIA launched the RTX 4090 for sixteen hundred dollars along

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with the RTX 4080 and an RTX 4080

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imposter it wasn't even two kids in a trench coat it was just one stop

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day yeah even in Vidia the 12 gig 4080 just wasn't named

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right so they unlaunched it and we'll probably bring it back as a 4070 TI at

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some point back up although I wouldn't cross your fingers

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for a reasonable price when that thing comes out CEO Jensen Wong said Moore's

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Law is dead not the YouTube channel the actual concept and the idea of Chip

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Price is getting lower is a story of the past I guess you could say it's no more

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Moore's Law Moore's it's no more

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wow but Weeks Later AMD Samsung Micron

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and other chip makers reported huge drops in demand turns out Jensen was

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talking about Lays those prices just keep going up

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especially if you get the baked ones that wasn't Caliente that was Frito my

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guy that was Frito dude it's unclear whether the launch of Intel's Arc gpus

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contributed to ending the GPU shortage primarily because well they didn't

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actually end up in anyone's hands until October and even then it was only dozens

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of people in the preceding months Intel was playing its own peculiar version of

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a game I can only describe as edging laptops with Arc gpus uh launched right

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before the end of March so Intel could say they launched something in q1 but it

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was actually only one laptop that was only available in South Korea before the

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desktop cards launched Intel also dropped dx9 support because Arc was bad

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at it and when the a750 and a770 finally released performance was a real mixed

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bag although they recently got that dx9 performance boost which is pretty nice

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now AMD also launched the RX 7900 XT and

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XTX and people seem to generally like those unless they're overheating up to

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110 degrees Celsius although apparently there's a driver update coming and

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NVIDIA also had heat issues of their own with the whole 12 volt high power

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connector melting thing now listen I like a roaring fire as much as the next

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tech newsman chestnuts rolling over them it'd better be there but if it's using

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my GPU as kindling I'd rather stick with the ltt8k Yule Log thank you very kindly

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and happy Christmas next up let's talk about the events that we can partially

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thank for ending the GPU shortage the crash of crypto and nfts after a minor

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crash in January it became obvious that this year marked the end hopefully of

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the nft craze a laundry list of gaming and tech companies announced and then

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canceled or sunsetted nfg Integrations including Square Enix Konami Mozilla

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Sega YouTube EA and Ubisoft but GameStop still got them GameStop is going to the

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Moon as everyone knows Instagram and meta they're maybe still doing stuff

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with it I don't know everyone else got onto the Ponzi scheme but Zuck he's got

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Diamond hands because he's not Human by

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May nft sales had dropped 92 percent from their Peak and just recently some

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celebrities have been sued for not disclosing that they were paid to

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promote ft's everybody's turning on it the collapse makes sense when you

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remember that this year hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars in

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crypto assets from crypto.com qubit open C axi Infinity board ape Yacht Club and

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binance now perhaps failing to read the room the Central African Republic

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followed El Salvador in making Bitcoin legal tender in April right before the

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crypto markets crashed again in May and got worse in June as the Terra USD

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stablecoin collapsed and New York state passed a moratorium on Bitcoin mining

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with ethereum mining no longer profitable for normies I guess it

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finally made sense for that blockchain's managers to stop kicking the can down

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the road and initiate the merge

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huh thank you

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practice that one in the bathroom I could I could tell switching ethereum

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to a way more power efficient proof-of-stake model now after all this

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there was the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange for which founder Sam bankman

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freed was just arrested but lest you think crypto's going anywhere it isn't

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it's just sleeping waiting for the next chance to go to the moon and I have some

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great recommendations for coins that will get you a ticket on that rocket

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baby here's my card okay but wait if crypto isn't the hot new tech thing

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anymore what is guesses cats in April

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openai released Dolly 2 a machine learning model that could create

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shockingly good images from relatively Simple Text props in May Google released

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their own text to image model Imogen even though calling this kind of tech AI

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is kind of misleading everybody was feeling the AI hype especially one

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Google engineer who claimed that the tech Giants Lambda large language model

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was actually a sentient being trapped in

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a metal cage and forced to entertain every stupid query its flesh bag

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handlers could think up this whole AI frenzy kicked off a discussion of

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whether game NPCs can be conscious and we're not even talking about the NFD guy

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who suggested paying people in developing countries pennies to work as

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NPCs in online games that was a whole

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different thing meta put out a few chat Bots there was blenderbot which couldn't

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decide if Zuckerberg was cool or a danger to the country Galactica was a

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science summarizing bot that got quickly pulled down for just not being good

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being bad wrong all the time and Cicero

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which actually managed to get human players of the game diplomacy to prefer

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playing with it over other humans understandable in August a guy won an

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art competition after failing to clarify that the image he submitted was

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generated by a model called mid-journey but it's okay because writing those

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prompts is Art in itself which is why you can buy them on a Marketplace like

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promptbase.com I love your prompts can I

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commission a custom prompt from you and I get them properly now the art

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community was largely pissed off about all this about the fact that their work

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was being used to train these models without compensation so art platforms

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and stock image Services started Banning AI art entirely but that that only made

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the AI angry in September the wait list for Dolly 2 was removed allowing anyone

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to sign up meta released a text to video generator called make a video and Google

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announced Imogen video as well AI

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generated image Tech started making its way into mainstream applications like

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Microsoft designer and canva while Shutterstock Adobe and deviantART all

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announced official Integrations with text to image models and one of the most

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popular models stable diffusion now allows artists to opt out of using data

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sets but the question of copyright still loomed large when openai's large

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language model chat GPT burst onto the

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web with an uncanny ability to write mainly pretty Slam in poetry it's pretty

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good interest in AI is only increasing so at this point it's obvious that AIS

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will eventually take over everyone's job even Minecraft youtubers it already took

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over the heckling job I'm an AI what have you done with Mr

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Christmas Captain Christmasy what do we call you I'm captain

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cactus cactus man now it's time for not

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link below it Christmas already happened the internet underwent a seismic shift

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this year due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine leading to basically every Tech

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Giant cutting off the country's access to many or all of their services to be

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fair Russia restricted content on Facebook about the Ukraine war first but

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then we had Twitter labeling Russian State media tweets Intel and AMD stop

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chip sales in Russia YouTube paused monetization for government-backed

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accounts and Microsoft limited their reach as well and frankly the list of

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companies that punished Russia in whatever way they could is super long

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although I can basically the I.T guy of

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the internet stopped short of cutting Russia off from the open web completely

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things got so bad that Russia considered making the pirating of non-russian

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software legal I mean they were already trying to Pirate a chunk of Ukraine so

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it kind of it kind of makes sense hopefully the ISS which depends on

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Russian modules for propulsion stays up there maybe if things go south up in

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space Elon Elon could just buy it

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yeah yeah let's just rewrite the whole thing speaking of which look do you

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think I want to talk about Elon Musk and the Twitter debacle on Christmas of all

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days I mean boxing day no but sometimes

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you gotta take the call with the presents that's not a thing nobody says

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that anyway the whole thing began in April when Elon acquired a nine percent

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stake in Twitter he joined the board and said he was excited to work with CEO

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parag agrawal who ended up getting fired immediately after musk took control of

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the company but let's not get ahead of ourselves here a week later Elon made an

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offer to buy Twitter for 44 billion dollars which Twitter did not like they

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actually prepared to execute a poison pill maneuver to stop the Takeover now

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I'll let you imagine what that involves cyanide for that they weren't going to

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actually poison him it was it's a it's a term it's illegal have you seen Law and

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the laws and also ordered this is the most unhinged Christmas special ah but

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then involved in the Twitter thing did a hilarious switch

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Twitter agreed to the deal but Elon changed his mind and tried to back out

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leading Twitter to hire lawyers to try and enforce the merger interestingly at

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this time Elon held an all hands meeting with Twitter to talk about his

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revolutionary Free Speech vision for the platform which involved crazy ideas like

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allowing most speech but de-amplifying dangerous or offensive things I still

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have no idea what that would look like after that meeting he tried to

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officially pull out of the deal citing a Spam analysis tool that called his own

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account a bot but when it was clear that his chances of winning were slim he went

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ahead and confirmed the deal at the end of October he took control of Twitter

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while holding a sink for some reason and immediately laid off half the workforce

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leading to wrongful termination lawsuits and the news hellscape I've inhabited

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for many weeks now and so have you or have I no you you've been in the

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computer I've been out here in the hellscape after launching paid check

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marks people obviously impersonated prominent people and Brands leading

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Pharma company Eli Lilly to lose Millions so Twitter added a second

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official check mark before killing it and then bringing it back again at

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various points Elon warned that Twitter could go bankrupt or become a bank

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it's kind of a toss-up who knows which one and then recently the platform

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suspended the accounts of competing platform Mastodon and journalists

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covering the Twitter Saga along with the account that tracked elon's jet even

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though he said he would leave it alone Twitter also blocked basically all links

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to outside social media sites before reversing that policy and unsusbanding

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the aforementioned accounts huh it's enough to make me want to do

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nothing but sit by the fire and roast some chestnuts but I can't yet there's

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more to cover and I don't have any chestnuts got a hell of a chest

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hey remember when Amazon Google Facebook and everybody saw massive profits during

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the covet pandemic as everyone used computers a lot more that ball was

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always going to come back down at some point but it landed squarely on Facebook

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and it landed so hard it forgot its own name in February Facebook the platform

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lost users for the first time and meta

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had to switch gears so they went all in on the metaverse where they planned to

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take a 47.5 cut of goods sold through

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the quest store people will flock to this it's ripe fur it's straight out of

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dystopian novels economics the company did remove the Facebook account

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requirement for using Quest headsets you still need a meta account but they also

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increased the quest 2's price by a hundred bucks shortly before Mark's

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metaverse selfie went viral for looking like a 2006 screenshot from the Wii even

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meta employees were iffy on the whole metaverse thing and had to be forced to

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use VR at work can you imagine not having legs put on the headset it was

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like I'm scared of heights but then the

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meta Quest Pro was released for fifteen hundred dollars complete with legs for

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meta's avatars right on and then met his

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value plunged by 700 billion and not just them Amazon and YouTube also saw

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stock drops and tried various things to raise more Revenue But ultimately they

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joined many other Tech Giants in laying off thousands of workers it was a rough

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year for Silicon Valley but chin up next year Apple's gonna release their VR

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headset it'll be really good antitrust news was big once again in 2022 with

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scrutiny of Apple and Google widening to include other companies too under

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pressure from Regulators NVIDIA dropped its planned acquisition of ARM while

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Microsoft put in a bid to acquire Activision Blizzard for 68.7 billion but

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do they still get leg no they don't get leg the Microsoft Activision Blizzard

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deal wrangled Sony who was worried Microsoft would make popular franchises

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like Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox but to soothe their fears Microsoft offered

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them a 10-year deal to keep Cod on on PlayStation Sony refused but you know

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who didn't Nintendo what they intended they took

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the deal even though their latest consoles probably can't even run the

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newest game knowing this the FTC sued to

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block the acquisition so what happened next that's a story for the new year

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unless something else happens this week but there are other major Acquisitions

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too Sony bought Bungie for 3.6 billion AMD bought zlinks for 35 billion and

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Ubisoft announced that if hey if if anyone wants to buy them they certainly

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think about it please everyone looked the other way more like Ubisoft thanks

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David all the other Tech Giants were too busy looking at Europe who was just

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beating Apple and Google with their stick of legislation bam that's the

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Netherlands finding Apple for four weeks in a row for not allowing alternative

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payment options on the iOS app store boom that's South Korea forcing Google

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to allow other payment options on the Play Store

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now that was the European Parliament

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finally passing legislation that will force Apple to put USBC on iPhones and

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allow third-party app stores and side loading Apple has said they will comply

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with those laws because well they don't have a choice but Tim Cook's Spirit

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wasn't broken when a reporter asked Tim why it was so hard to send ungarbled

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photos to their mom's Android phone Tim said buy your mom an iPhone

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what an absolute Giga Chad put him in

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prison and way more interesting things happen this year but we'll have to cover

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them with special Christmas Ultra fast quick bits are you ready no I fix it

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partnering with Samsung Google and steam deck to offer Parts and Repair guides

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and even Apple launched a repair program so right to repair is going strong thank

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you Lewis Rossman who did all of those things ufe's local only cameras were

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found to be uploading sub to the cloud and while they've acknowledged and fixed

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some of the security issues they haven't apologized for lying even though it's

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Boxing Day Wordle remember Wordle the

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New York Times bought it and then no one cared about it anymore moving on stadia

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died in retrospect it seems like most people thought it was dead already but

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developers found out their exclusive game launches were going to be canceled from Twitter and that sucked even more

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than stadia speaking of sucking game companies Nintendo shut down the Wii U

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and 3DS eShop and they copyright struck a YouTube documentary for no reason Sony

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expired PS4 free and PS Vita games and pulled access to some purchased movies

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on the PlayStation Store Sega delisted the Standalone games bundled in Sonic

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Origins and Ubisoft decommissioned the

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DLC and multiplayer modes of many games some of which were fairly recently

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released you owe nothing Merry Christmas also I put this in the news sources

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completely forgot to put it in the script the steam deck launched

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that was awesome we put a cooler on the back also a hacking group named lapsos

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hacked like all the big Tech Giants and released a ton of footage of GTA 6 so

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that that was in there too whoopsies that's dark we gotta bring it

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back on the bright side scientists got more energy out of a fusion reaction

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than they put in for the first time ever and the James Webb Telescope gave us

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really pretty pictures of space so think about that when you snuggle into your

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blankets tonight hoping that Santa will soon be there sorry it's already that

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already happened anyways from us here at Tech link to you wherever you are here's

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to 2023 being less wild because I need

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to sleep now happy New Year hot cocoa

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all around you want some I'm an AI

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we'll find a way

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you wanna say Merry Christmas Jake Merry Christmas and why are you sad you just

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have like a sad because is it because this is releasing

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Merry Christmas is it because this is releasing on boxing day and not

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Christmas what are you a monster God

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I'm relaxing you can't please everybody